According to a story tonight in Pcadvisor.co.uk, which cites a recent report by Deloitte. the .Au Domain name space has "generated big business in Australia and will continue to do so" The study commissioned by AusRegistry and the .au Domain Administration (auDA), is the first of its kind to assesses the true extent of the .au domain's influence on the Australian economy. "The key finding … [Read more...]
India Court Upholds Order Canceling The Registration Of The Domain Internet.In Based Off Of A Trademark On Internet
The High Court Of Delhi At New Delhi has just upheld an arbitrators determination that the domain name Internet.in should be taken away from the domain holder, its registration cancelled and ordered the domain to be held at the registry level, based on an Indian trademark for the term "Internet". It's a complicated case but to the extent any of you have any .in domain names you should really … [Read more...]
FT.com: Average 1 Letter .Co.Uk Domain Auction Goes For $60K: Facebook, Mercedez Win; Google Gets Outbid
According to FT.com in a recently concluded auction, the average price for a single letter .co.uk domain name was £39,000 or roughly $60,000. "In all Twelve single-letter domains, including x.co.uk and 0.co.uk, fetched an average of £39,000 each in an auction run by Nominet, which administers the UK’s internet infrastructure." "Including two-letter domains, 2,831 web addresses were sold, … [Read more...]
US Not The Only Country To Seize Domains: Nominet Shuts Down More Than 3,000 .Co.Uk Sites
According the telegraph.co.uk, Nominet, the not-for-profit company that controls the registry of “dot uk” domain names, held a meeting in London on Monday, with authorities including the Metropolitan Police and the Serious and Organized Crime Agency which both lobbied for a new system that would allow them to suspend “dot uk” domain names to tackle online crime. At the meeting … [Read more...]
TechCrunch: “3.4 Million .EU Domain Names Registered In Five Years I Call Dismal Failure”
Shortly after EURid the .eu top-level domain (TLD) registry, sent out a glowing press release marking the domain’s fifth birthday, TechCrunch blasted the extension and the press release in a post entitled "3.4 Million .EU Domain Names Registered In Five Years I Call Dismal Failure" In the Press release EURid said: “Today we celebrate .eu’s public launch five years ago. Steady … [Read more...]
What If A New Extension Launched & No One Showed Up? It Did Yesterday; .So What? Pirates.So Goes For $10
The general availability of the .So extension opened yesterday April 1st 2011. Yes on April's Fools Day. No joke. I guess its poetic justice that the ccTLD for arguably the most rouge nation on earth didn't even know any better than to open up its extension on April's Fools Day I didn't write about it yesterday because I knew everyone would think it was a April's Fools Day Joke. But … [Read more...]
Despite War & Internet Cutoff, Someone Steps Out & Spends $14K On 3.ly
Despite a war raging in Libya, home to the .LY domain extension (ccTLD) and a very uncertain future as to the Government of the country, someone has stepped up and paid 10,000 euro's approximately $14,000 for the domain name 3.ly. You have to admit with Libya in turmoil, and with the Government cutting off Internet service inside the country you have to be somewhat brave to spend $14K on a … [Read more...]